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https://www.jns.org/trump-admin-cancels-450m-in-grants-to-harvard-above-2-2b-axed/?

“Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination,” according to the federal task force on Jew-hatred.

The federal Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced on Tuesday that it was canceling another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, beyond the $2.2 billion it terminated last week.

The task force, which includes the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. General Services Administration, stated that “Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment plaguing its campus.”

The Cambridge, Mass., Ivy League school’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias has recognized its “shameful legacy” and exposed the reality that “Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership.”

The task force noted recent reporting of a “pattern of endemic race discrimination” at Harvard Law Review, when the journal considered submissions.

“Even more troubling, the Harvard Law Review awarded a $65,000 fellowship—meant to ‘serve the public interest’—to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus,” the task force stated. “The decision was reviewed and approved by a faculty committee, demonstrating just how radical Harvard has become.”

“Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination,” it added. “This is not leadership. It is cowardice. And it’s not academic freedom. It’s institutional disenfranchisement.”

https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/opinion/probe-foreign-influence-behind-terror-loving-anti-jew-college-agitators/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app

I wonder how Columbia University would behave in the following scenario. A bunch of students and outside agitators descend on their campus. They are dressed in the gear of the Ku Klux Klan, being careful to conceal their faces so as to avoid any personal criticism. They then enter the university’s library and other sacred spaces of learning and chant for the lynching of black Americans.

Would Columbia University sit by while this happened? Would Democrat prosecutors and left-wing activists claim that this was simply a case of people exercising their free-speech rights? And would conservative pundits wishing to appear as being “on the right side of history” insist that the hooligans should be allowed to continue their threatening actions with impunity?

I would guess that the answer to these questions would be “no,” “no” and “no” again.

So why do so many people think that a movement which dedicates itself to intimidating and threatening another minority group in America — specifically Jews — find itself so cosily protected?

The thought occurs after a friend at Columbia sent me footage from the university’s Butler library — the main library on campus — from earlier this week. The Butler library is a beautiful building, intended as a sacrosanct place of study and education. Which was what places like Columbia were once for.

But on Wednesday those students who did want to study had to put up with a mob of fascists descending on their place of learning. Scores of students and others came in dressed in their terrorist chic. Their heads were wrapped in Palestinian terrorist scarves and some of them — as ever — decided to mix this up with COVID-19 protective masks.

https://thespectator.com/topic/another-spring-another-round-of-anti-semitism-on-campus/

The weather is growing warm, which means anti-Semitic demonstrations are blooming at elite universities. The hatred of Jews is no longer hidden, as it was in the days when Jewish enrollment was quietly limited by quotas. Now, it is displayed openly by a campus coalition led by hardline American leftists (students, faculty, and administrators) and Muslim students, some from America, some from the Middle East. 

Their hatred is screamed at Jewish students and pro-Israeli speakers—and then at anyone who dares support them or simply demands the basic right to speak or be heard. Any support for Israel is damned as “genocide” and then shouted down, shamed, or worse. The demonstrators have no compunctions about accusing any political adversary of complicity in horrific crimes.

The good news – there is some – is that a few universities are beginning to say “Stop It!” Yale, to its credit, just revoked the official status of Yalies4Palestine for “flagrantly violating the rules” when it set up an encampment and blocked Jewish students from crossing. The group’s violations came after it had met with senior university officials and been warned about its future actions. They disregarded the warnings. The question now is whether Yale will do more than revoke the organization’s “registered student status”? Will it discipline the students? It hasn’t so far, just as it failed in the past when the demonstrations supported other leftist causes. Remember, too, that Columbia did nothing to the students who camped on for weeks and occupied a building on campus. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg let them go with a pat on the head.

Problems like those at Yale and Columbia are not new, but they have grown worse because of weak-kneed responses from leaders, on campus and off. University administrators almost never suspend or expel students for harassing other students or violating basic rules of campus life. District attorneys in blue states are just as bad. They have done little to punish students and their allies who break the law, all under the false flag of “progressivism.” The Biden Administration and its Department of Justice were just as bad.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/ivory-tower-hypocrite-university-of-california-los-angeles/

#1: University of California-Los Angeles

In the spring of 2024, as pro-Hamas protests roiled college campuses and illegal encampments led by keffiyeh-wearing radicals took over campus quads, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) stood out as an example of supreme hypocrisy on how to handle controversial discourse on campus.

Radical student activists aided by outside agitators took over an enormous swath of campus, denying entry to “Zionists” (meaning virtually all Jews) or anyone who refused to parrot their glorification of Hamas and the beauty of the terrorist organization’s October 7th massacre of over 1200 innocent Israelis. Students who attempted to breach the wooden and metal barricades erected to form the so-called “Palestine Soldiarity Encampment” were explicitly turned away with either words or, when the activists deemed it necessary, physical force.  Instead of ensuring equal access to all students, as is the university’s constitutional obligation, university security forces were instructed to stand by and guard the encampment.

The Amcha Initiative, a watchdog group dedicated to tracking and combatting anti-Semitism on campus, has documented some of these horrific confrontations on the public university campus and the resultant denial of freedom of speech and freedom of association. As Amcha reports:

A Jewish counter demonstrator at the anti-Zionist encampment on campus was beaten. After her 13-year-old sister dropped her Israeli flag, the counter demonstrator bent down to pick it up and at least five kefiyah-clad protestors accosted her, first by stomping on the flag and then by knocking her to the ground, repeatedly kicking her in her head and causing her to lose consciousness and apparently suffer a concussion. When she awoke she was bleeding from her head, disoriented, and unable to recognize her family.
According to the ADL, a Jewish individual was also harassed near the encampment by an individual who stated, “Go back to Poland.”
A pro-Israel counter-protester was attacked by an anti-Zionist encampment protestor who attempted to rip the sign from his hand, grabbed his hat and flashed a taser.
Also, the same day, a moving barrier of protesters was formed to block a Jewish student, who wears a Star of David necklace, from entering campus while as a security officer stood nearby. The Jewish student told protesters, “I’m a UCLA student, I deserve to go here, we pay tuition, this is our school, and they’re not letting me in. My class is over there, I want to use that entrance … will you let me go in?” The protesters simply told him that they’re “not engaging” and blocked the Jewish student every time he attempted to go through the entrance.
Additional incidents occurred with anti-Zionist protesters affiliated with the SJP and JVP encampment blocking Zionist students from walkways and accessing the library, using wristbands to identity anti-Zionists, with many of these incidents documented on video. In one video, protestors have taken over access to an area near the school library, demanding wrist bands and approval to each student passing, with one Jewish student attempting to enter and upon being denied asking, “So you won’t let me in because I’m Jewish?” The anti-Zionist protester responses, “Ummm no… we have a couple Jewish students here… are you a Zionist?” The Jewish student responds, “Yes of course I am” to which the protester retorts, “Well yeah, we’re not gonna let Zionists in.”